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Arms flung out, Erica Kelly twirled around in a lime green chair.

Kelly, a junior at UC Davis, was relishing the bright new space for student life programs and academic resources in the $22 million Student Community Center that opened its doors this week.

"I have this elated feeling," said Kelly, who is a peer educator with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center on the building's ground floor. "The center says we value the community and these student groups," added the food science and technology major from San Jose.

The almost 43,000-gross-square-foot center fulfills a vision of UC Davis students to build a facility to demonstrate and help the campus live out its Principles of Community -- a commitment to being a learning environment that values diversity and is characterized by understanding and acceptance of all people. In referenda in 1999 and 2002, students approved paying additional fees for the purpose.

Source: Daily Democrat

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William Ristenpart, an assistant professor who has appointments in both the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , uses high-speed video and a high-resolution electrochemical measuring technique known as “chronocoulometry” to answer fundamental questions about how droplets of various liquids acquire an electrical charge .

Findings from these studies are expected to have applications in a number of fields including petroleum and food-oil processing, and manufacture of microchips that are capable of performing multiple laboratory functions.

“The amount of charge obtained by metal spheres has been known since the time of Maxwell in the 1860s, but 150 years later, we still don’t understand charge transfer into liquid drops,” Ristenpart said. “I’m excited that this research will shed light on a fundamental problem with applications ranging from food science to atmospheric science....

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